From the July 2021 Issue The XX Factor The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It By Mary Ann Sieghart LR
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From the August 2018 Issue When Greed Was Good The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market By Philip Augar
From the December 2017 Issue Currency Chaos Six Days in September: Black Wednesday, Brexit and the Making of Europe By William Keegan, David Marsh & Richard Roberts LR
From the October 2016 Issue City Slickers Crash, Bang, Wallop: The Inside Story of London’s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World By Iain Martin LR
From the September 2014 Issue Taking Stock The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis By Martin Wolf LR
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
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